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In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Pregnant Mum Pleads Guilty to Multiple Fraud Offences The 32-year old mother-of-two kept a ‘to do list’ of the frauds she planned to commit each...

It is a fundamental principle of our criminal justice system that accused persons are informed of the evidence against them and have the opportunity to investigate the veracity of that material before their cases reach contested hearings or jury trials....

Swedish prosecutors have formally dropped their investigation into an allegation that Julian Assange sexually assaulted a woman in Stockholm ten years ago, conceding the evidence is too weak to support a prosecution. The allegations In 2010, Swedish prosecutors issued an...

Another priest is behind bars as a result of complaints received in the lead up to the 2014 Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. James Joseph Cunneen has been found guilty in Parramatta District Court of 10...

The act of intimidation forms part of many criminal offences in NSW, and indeed across Australia. Some of the many offences containing the word intimidation, intimidatory, intimidates or intimidate appear are: Crimes Act 1900 (NSW) Section 12 - Compassing deposition...

In a majority decision released today, the High Court of Australia found that a female’s genitals do not need to be ‘render[ed] imperfect or irreparably damaged in some fashion’ for the offence of female genital mutilation to be established. The...

Jock Palfreeman has been unlawfully detained in Busmantsi Detention Centre in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia since 19 September. The Sydney man has served 11 years in prison for a murder that many believe was an act of self-defence, a...

Munya Andrews began practising law back in 1997. And the Bardi elder from the Kimberley region was called to the Victorian Bar in 2008. Practising in both criminal and civil law, Ms Andrews is today the most senior First Nations...

Against the backdrop of the ACT having just passed laws to legalise cannabis use, and the pending three year anniversary of the government’s highly derided cannabis medicine licensing scheme, comes a documentary that deals with the reality of medicinal cannabis...

A news report dated 9 October 2009 states that Susan Neill-Fraser had appeared in a Tasmanian court that day, regarding the murder of her de facto partner of 18 years Bob Chappell. At the time, she was on remand following...